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If you do not want to see entire rows from your table, just name the columns in which you are interested, separated by commas. For example, if you want to know when your animals were born, select thename andbirth columns:

mysql> SELECT name, birth FROM pet;+----------+------------+| name     | birth      |+----------+------------+| Fluffy   | 1993-02-04 || Claws    | 1994-03-17 || Buffy    | 1989-05-13 || Fang     | 1990-08-27 || Bowser   | 1989-08-31 || Chirpy   | 1998-09-11 || Whistler | 1997-12-09 || Slim     | 1996-04-29 || Puffball | 1999-03-30 |+----------+------------+

To find out who owns pets, use this query:

mysql> SELECT owner FROM pet;+--------+| owner  |+--------+| Harold || Gwen   || Harold || Benny  || Diane  || Gwen   || Gwen   || Benny  || Diane  |+--------+

Notice that the query simply retrieves theowner column from each record, and some of them appear more than once. To minimize the output, retrieve each unique output record just once by adding the keywordDISTINCT:

mysql> SELECT DISTINCT owner FROM pet;+--------+| owner  |+--------+| Benny  || Diane  || Gwen   || Harold |+--------+

You can use aWHERE clause to combine row selection with column selection. For example, to get birth dates for dogs and cats only, use this query:

mysql> SELECT name, species, birth FROM pet       WHERE species = 'dog' OR species = 'cat';+--------+---------+------------+| name   | species | birth      |+--------+---------+------------+| Fluffy | cat     | 1993-02-04 || Claws  | cat     | 1994-03-17 || Buffy  | dog     | 1989-05-13 || Fang   | dog     | 1990-08-27 || Bowser | dog     | 1989-08-31 |+--------+---------+------------+